Books by Benjamin Moser
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English
review 1: It's unusual for me to read a biography before I've read/watched much of the person I'm reading it about. However, I've only read one book of Lispector's, a lend from Marie, and it was amazing; I wrote pages of quotes from it. When I catalogued this book it intrigued me, and now ...
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review 1: Marvelous biography, which focuses on Clarice Lispector, but also on the world in which she lived. She emigrated to Brazil in 1920, her mother the victim of the pogrom rapes, and who died soon after their arrival--Jews in the Ukraine were having a bad time of it long before Hitl...
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review 1: A colorful and detailed account of the life of a prolific Brazilian writer and celebrity.“I am so mysterious that I don’t even understand myself.”“Alongside my desire to defend my privacy, I have the intense desire to confess in public and not to a priest.”Her brand of confession...